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The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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